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Resources for Left Handers

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Dr. M.K. Holder, Director, Handedness Research Institute maintains one of the best websites for left handers.

The objective of this website is to communicate accurate information and simple coping strategies pertainent to left-handers living in a right-biased society. The author is a biological anthropologist who does primary research into handedness. This site is collaboratively built, incorporating comments from left-handers worldwide.

This website is designed to be a resource for right-handed parents, teachers, employers, physicians, design engineers, students, as well as left-handers and ambidextrals of all ages. This site has been built with the collaboration of left-handers worldwide (about 24 countries) who have provided comments directed to the target groups (parents, educators, employers, manufacturers, physicians) and have suggested tips and strategies for coping in a right-biased world. Read more about this website onleft handedness.

An Interesting Website about Left handers from E. Stephen Mack

Whether you're left-handed, right-handed, no-handed, or ambidextrous, you'll find something of interest on this Website.

The websites Table of Contents include: My own experience as a lefty, Open forum: Your comments, Local Articles, Usenet Resources, WWW Resources, Scientific Articles and Sites, Personal Essays and Opinion Pieces, Newspaper Articles, Lists of Left-Handed, Celebrities, Left-Handed Fiction and Poetry, Left-Handed Humor, Handedness Surveys, Personal Left-Handed Home Pages, Left-Handed Societies, Businesses for Left-Handed Peopl and Back-Links.

Articles on Left Handed Kids

LEFT 'n' Write - A UK site provides info on teaching left handed kids.

LEFT 'n' Write of Worcester is spearheading the campaign to have specific guidelines on helping left-handed children included as part of Initial Teacher training and within current in-service training. Read a brief review of the site.

Teaching Left-Handers to Write by M.K. Holder, Ph.D.

Teaching a child to write with his or her left hand is not just the opposite from teaching how to write right-handed. Languages that are written left-to-right, like English, are more difficult to write with the left hand -- a right-hander writes away from his body and pulls the pencil, while a left-hander must write toward his body and push the pencil. Read More on Teaching Left Handers to Write